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A global study, led by researchers at King’s College London and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, suggests that anorexia nervosa is at least partly a metabolic disorder, and not purely psychiatric as previously thought.
By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 15 Jul 2019Commercial app stores urgently need to address the lack of information available to consumers about the benefits and quality of health apps, according to a new study funded by the NIHR Maudsley BRC.
By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 3 May 2019The largest genetic study of bipolar disorder ever, supported by the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre, has identified 30 genetic variants that act to increase the risk of developing bipolar disorder, 20 of which are newly discovered.
The large-scale genome-wide association study was undertaken by a group of 207 institutions from 22 countries. The study was published in Nature Genetics.
By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 2 May 2019Researchers at King’s College London launched the largest ever single study of depression and anxiety in September 2018, recruiting in England, and are now opening the study in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. By recruiting at least 40,000 people who have experienced either depression or anxiety at some point in their life, the Genetic Links to Anxiety and Depression (GLAD) study will make important strides towards better understanding of these disorders and improving the lives of future patients.
By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 25 Feb 2019The Art Assassins, the South London Gallery’s young people’s forum, work together with contemporary artists, designers, filmmakers and each other to create a programme of events for other young people and a wider audience. Here one of the Art Assassins shares a blog on their recent Peckham Experiment exhibition where they worked with Charles Curtis, Genomics & Biomarker Core Facility Manager to extract their DNA.
By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 19 Dec 2018
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